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A file photo of Joe Root. (Twitter / BBC Sport)
London: The hope of England captain Joe Root to spend precious time in the midfield against the red ball before the first Test against the # India next week was hit another shot on Monday. The only consolation for Root, who dropped three times in the second round of the Yorkshire County Championship against his rival Lancashire, is that he was caught out of the tournament. England James Anderson on the second day of Four at Old Trafford
In a game of Roses where the bowlers were at the top, Adam Lyth had already fallen for four Kane Williamson, the New Zealand captain, for a single match that the former England Graham Onions twice. Root had been the first of a trio of world-class drummers involved in a tripling of Clark Clark, Lancashire's versatile pitcher, Sunday, when he was lbw for 22. The next Clark balloon had Williamson lbw for a duck in front of England. goalkeeper Jonny Bairstow was caught in the slips.
Yorkshire, White Rose County, was fired for 109 but led the first innings as hosts Lancashire, whose emblem is the Red Rose, dropped to 102 while in response.
Monday saw Bairstow guiding the Yorkshire to 154 for four in their second innings at lunchtime, the drummer in Form 77 did not come out of just 63 balls as his team set an impressive lead of 237.
Series of five trials with India at Edgbaston Field in Birmingham on August 1st.
First published: July 23, 2018, 21:11 IST
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